I admit that the thread title made me think, what, they lost a portrait of him? How do you lose a painting? :blink::rofl: Then I thought, wait, I thought, there's not much else there besides empty buildings?
I never understood though why people prefer to refer to him as being a child himself. Childlike is not childish, did they think he became who is was by being a child?
MJ said numerous times that Neverland was the only place where he could be himself, he literally couldn't walk down the street without getting into a potentially dangerous situation.
“I have an urge to investigate people I have never met” says Swiss-born Henry Leutwyler."
That's a problem right there. So there's a pre-conceived notion already in place.
The resulting series of photographs document the inner turmoil of the public person who chose to model his private life on Peter Pan and the Lost Boys – children who never wanted to grow up. Leutwyler’s unemotional portraits are almost too intimate to behold, but when one digs beneath the surface, what emerges is the profound truth of a star’s sequestered reality. Leutwyler’s photographs unearth the “Lost Boy” forced to leave Neverland, and now these still lifes are as close as anyone will ever get to what Jackson once had, and ultimately left behind.
Yeah, imagine this place to be your only sanctuary where you can feel safe and not bothered non-stop. Then imagine 70 officers descending upon the only safe place you ever had in this world. Then people take
photographs of your things only to call that "inner turmoil".
I lOVE Italian Renaissance depictions of Annunciatory Angels and admiring paintings like "Ophelia drowning" or "Judith with the head of Holofernes" gives me great pleasure- yet MJ gets grief for Peter Pan and a few other statues?
Get out of town and get real. You're just revealing your own narrow horizon...
LOVE it when people equate someone's preferences in Art as something that needs to be judged. It doesn't. Leave 'em alone.
Some people go on pub crawls, some people collect stamps and others love to dress up in leather. What's with the judging? Nothing weird about Peter Pan, my taste in art is 10 times weirder and "in more inner turmoil", attack me.
When was the last time all the analysts of the "weird Michael Jackson" set foot into a contemporary theatre?? Or checked the contemporary art scene? He was an artist, what is so weird about Peter Pan? I can tell you that most amateur theatre productions will be 20x "stranger" than any artifact in Michael Jackson's moving boxes.
What's the point here? People took absolute advantage off the way he shared his sanctuary.
What's with the need to make him out to be some distressing thing? He became distressed because of all the BS he put up with, not the other way around.
I noticed a huge amount of books popping up on Amazon with people that fully say out loud they never met him but yet continue to describe him in the most distressing ways.
With twenty-five years experience creating portraits that document the famous and powerful, he has turned his gaze on the belongings that surround the individual. A self-taught youth who began his career by photographing “cheese and chocolates”, Leutwyler is a visual archaeologist. His work drills deep, allowing the objects to reveal more than the subjects themselves.
Next problem right there. Objects are objects. Objects turn into subjects.
Photography is a beautiful thing, it really is, love it.
Prior to Michael Jackson’s death, Henry Leutwyler photographed crates of artifacts removed from Jackson’s Neverland ranch in California.
Yeah, I'm just trying to imagine what it feels like if someone were to photograph my moving boxes (possibly without me knowing about it, or even against my wishes), look at my stuff and then draw their own conclusions about me. I don't think it would great at all if the world were free to gawk at my stuff- unless I actually invited that photographer in.
"Leutwyler’s photographs unearth the “Lost Boy” forced to leave Neverland, and now these still lifes are as close as anyone will ever get to what Jackson once had, and ultimately left behind." made me cry.......Is this the same guy who went into Neverland and took pictures at night?
